Colleges can now pay athletes directly

I've loved college sports. My time in sports journalism at UNC was spectacular.

But for the good of the higher educational system of the United States, it's past time to get sports out of colleges and do local municipalities at lower league levels.

It will never happen. NEVER EVER HAPPEN. There are too many communities that survive based on sports revenue with colleges (Chapel Hill is one of them). But it should happen. The money going to sports while ignoring educational pursuits is just too much. And yes, I acknowledge that a lot of the attention many schools get is based on their sports programs.

But this money is just getting too stupid. And it being ingrained in our educational system is just dumb at this point.
 
It's almost like big-time collegiate sports are similar to addictive illegal drugs. They don't actually do anything to advance the educational agenda of colleges, but colleges have convinced themselves that they can't survive without them. The only real impact I see big-time college sports having on the host universities is that state level politicians who support less successful universities take out their sport frustrations by cutting academic funding to more successful programs. North Carolina is a much better state to live amd work in because of the contributions that UNC and NCSU, and other members of the UNC system, have made to the economy. But now Republicans are slashing funding to the entire UNC system, in part I believe because of the vast sums of money they seeing passing through the atheltics programs. But I will admit the Republcan War on "Book Learning" is probably a bigger reason for the cuts.
 
OldWHEEL said:
I hate that universities are no longer primarily education focused…but they haven’t been for a long, long time
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No they have not. Some preferred when it was behind the curtain.

I’m glad the light has finally been shone on it.
 
So will schools negotiate and enter in to contracts with athletes ?

If so, then maybe this is a good thing:unsure:

Bubba sits down with a prospective 5 star basketball recruit and makes the following offer:

Payment for your freshman year 750k
Payment for your soph year 1.5 million
Payment for your junior year 3 million
Payment for your senior year 5 million
 
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